Darshana, wife of the main convict Sanjhi Ram who has been awarded with the life term in the case of rape and murder of a nomadic minor girl, reacts on the court verdict in Rasana...
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In this combination of three file images, three convicts in the Kathua rape case, from left, SI Anand Dutta, Surender Verma and Constable Tilak Raj are seen in the police custody i...
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Kathua rape case convicts being taken to the District and Sessions Court for the pronouncement of the quantum of punishment in Pathankot, Punjab. The court awarded life term to thr...
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Kathua rape case main convict Sanjhi Ram along with other convicts being taken to the District and Sessions Court for the pronouncement of the quantum of punishment in Pathankot, P...
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A police bus carrying all the accused involved in the rape and murder of a nomadic minor girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, arrives at the Judicial Courts Complex for the verdict,...
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Heavy security deployed outside the Judicial Courts Complex during the verdict in the case of rape and murder of a nomadic minor girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, in Pathankot.
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Advocate Mubeen Farooqi, lawyer of one of the eight accused involved in the rape and murder of a nomadic minor girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, speaks to the media before the st...
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Parvesh Kumar or Mannu, one of the eight accused in the alleged Kathua rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl, being produced before the district and sessions court, in Pat...
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Deepak Khajuria, one of the eight accused in the alleged Kathua rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl being, produced before the district and sessions court, in Pathankot,...
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Surinder Kuma, one of the eight accused in the alleged Kathua rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl, being produced before the district and sessions court, in Pathankot, P...
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Protest Street
Students protested across Kashmir demanding justice for the eight-year-old Bakarwal girl, who was raped and killed in Kathua
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Two Kids
The girl, who was 12 when she was raped, holds her baby
Kathua rape victim's lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat, shows victory sign after Supreme Court directs fast-track trial and transfer of Kathua gang-rape and murder case to Pathankot in ...
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Minor & Majority
Former J&K minister Lal Singh at a Jammu rally
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Poles Apart
Students protest in Srinagar, demanding ‘Justice for Asifa’
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Activists of Shiv Sena burn an effigy of Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti during a protest demanding a CBI probe in rape and murder of the 8-year-old Kathua girl, i...
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Mission Vande Mataram Foundation members during a protest against alleged communalisation of Kathua rape case, at India Gate in New Delhi.
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People hold a 200ft long Tricolor while taking part in the 'Tiranga March' to protest against alleged communalisation of Kathua rape case, at India Gate in New Delhi.
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People hold a banner during a protest against recent rapes in many parts of the country and demanding to hang rapists, in Ahmedabad.
According to the charge sheet in the Kathua case, the girl, who was kidnapped on January 10 this year, was allegedly raped in captivity in a small village temple in the district after being kept sedated for four days before she was bludgeoned to death.
Sanji Ram, considered the mastermind of the heinous crime, along with two others, were convicted for life on charges of rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua by a sessions court in Pathankot on Monday.
A special court in Pathankot sentenced three of the convicted men to life imprisonment, while three others have been sentenced to five years for destruction of evidence
The day-to-day in-camera trial began in the first week of June 2018 at the district and sessions court in Pathankot after the Supreme Court directed that the case be shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir.
Eight people, including the custodian of the village temple in Kathua and two policemen, have been arrested for their alleged role in the crime that stunned the country with its brutality and polarised society along communal lines.
The Kathua rape and murder victim's father alleged in his complaint to the court that lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat had attended only two or three hearings in the past five months.
The eight-year-old girl, belonging to a nomadic tribe, was allegedly kidnapped on January 10 and her body was found on January 17. It is alleged that she was gang-raped and later murdered.
A bench of Justices U U Lalit and D Y Chandrachud also dismissed a separate plea filed by two other accused in the case seeking transfer of the investigation in the matter to an independent agency.
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